A leg to stand on: Learning creates pain

Author(s): Flor, H.

Journal/Book: Behav Brain Sci. 1997; 20: 40 West 20TH Street, New York, NY 10011-4211. Cambridge Univ Press. 441.

Abstract: The persistence of both inflammatory and neuropathic pain can only be explained when learning processes are taken into account in addition to sensitizing mechanisms. Learning processes such as classical and operant conditioning create memories for pain that are based on altered synaptic connections in supraspinal structures and persist without peripheral input.

Note: Editorial Birbaumer N, Univ Tubingen, Inst Med Psychol & Behav Neurobiol, D-72074 Tubingen, GERMANY

Keyword(s): CORTICAL PLASTICITY; OWL MONKEYS; REORGANIZATION; ANALGESIA; CORTEX; ANTIANALGESIA; AMPUTATION; MORPHINE; HAND

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